A History of Religion in America

From the End of the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

Bryan Le Beau

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781351670128
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

A History of Religion in America: From the End of the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century provides comprehensive coverage of the history of religion in America from the end of the American Civil War to religion in post 9/11 America. The volume explores major religious groups in the United States and examines the following topics:

• The aftermath of the American Civil War
• Immigration's impact on American religion
• The rise of the social gospel
• The fundamentalist response
• Religion in Cold War America
• The 60's counterculture and the backlash
• Religion in Post-9/11 America

Chronologically arranged and integrating various religious developments into a coherent historical narrative, this book also contains useful chapter summaries and review questions. Designed for undergraduate religious studies and history students A History of Religion in America provides a substantive and comprehensive introduction to the complexity of religion in American history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Figures
• Table
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 The challenges of immigration, growth, and diversity
• 2 Industrialization, urbanization, and the Social Gospel, here and abroad
• 3 Science versus religion: action and reaction
• 4 Religion in America between the World Wars
• 5 Religion in post-World War II America, 1945 to 1960
• 6 Religion in an age of turmoil – the 1960s and 1970s
• 7 An equal and opposite reaction: conservative retrenchment in the 1980s and 1990s
• 8 Whither religion in the twenty-first century?
• Index